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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
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Event |
| 12:22a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 19, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 19, 2021 is available. | | 1:03p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (exiv2, firefox, and thunderbird), Fedora (libsndfile, python-docx, and xscreensaver), openSUSE (haproxy), and SUSE (haproxy). | | 1:54p |
LibreOffice 7.2 Community released The Document Foundation has announced the latest release of LibreOffice:
LibreOffice 7.2 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download. Based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, it provides a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats. In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images. There are also drawing speed improvements when using the Skia back-end that was introduced with LibreOffice 7.1.
[...] LibreOffice 7.2 Community’s new features have been developed by 171 contributors: 70% of code commits are from 51 developers employed by three companies sitting in TDF’s Advisory Board – Collabora, Red Hat and allotropia – or other organizations (including The Document Foundation), and 30% are from 120 individual volunteers.
See the release notes for more information on the changes and new features in the LibreOffice 7.2. | | 3:05p |
[$] The shrinking role of ETXTBSY
Unix-like systems abound with ways to confuse new users, many of which have
been present since long before Linux entered the scene. One consistent
source of befuddlement is the "text file is busy" (ETXTBSY) error
message that is delivered in response to an attempt to overwrite an
executable image file. Linux is far less likely to deliver
ETXTBSY results than it once was, but they do still happen on
occasion. Recent work to simplify the mechanism behind ETXTBSY
has raised a more fundamental question: does this error check have any
value at all? |
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